The American Bar Association (ABA) Midyear Meeting was held in Houston, TX in February. At the Midyear Meeting, the ABA House of Delegates approved a number of resolutions regarding the following topics:
- The appointment of counsel for unaccompanied children in immigration proceedings
- The disclosure of lethal injection protocols in states using the method in carrying out the death penalty
- The provision of comprehensive debt counseling and debt management education to law students and young lawyers
- Resolutions regarding juvenile criminal offenders
- Resolution regarding standards for obtaining protection orders irrespective of an existing relationship between the parties
- Resolutions urging: the expansion of housing protections for victims of domestic and sexual violence; comprehensive laws regarding dangerous wild animals; the adoption of legal standards recommended in the 2013 Indian Law and Order Commission report; the strengthening of consumer protections regarding deceptive or fraudulent loan foreclosure rescue practices; and the imposition of death-penalty sentences only by unanimous decisions by juries
Full details with links to the individuals resolutions are available here from the ABA.
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